Yes! Bush defeated on Social Security.
Oct. 5th, 2005 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusRight on!
Bush Admits Defeat On Butchering Social Security
Okay, so I added the word "butchering."
This is the beginning of a long slide for the Bush agenda. Next year is a congressional election year, and after that he's a complete lame duck president. Iraq isn't going away and isn't getting any better, and Iraq plus the Katrina clean-up are the two key issues he mentions in this article: both of them stones around his neck.
The less-government pundits are having to face the facts that "less government" leaves us helpless in the face of disasters like Katrina, and "less government" means we can't afford wars in Iraq either.
Bush is not really a conservative "less government" president, by the way. He makes use of a "big government" with items like, oh, wars in Iraq, Patriot Act red tape, then makes himself popular by cutting taxes (for the people who put him in office) with no clue how to pay for it. That's not less government. It's just less money to run the same amount of government.
Anyone want to help me nail his coffin shut? *Icarus hands out nails*
Bush Admits Defeat On Butchering Social Security
Okay, so I added the word "butchering."
This is the beginning of a long slide for the Bush agenda. Next year is a congressional election year, and after that he's a complete lame duck president. Iraq isn't going away and isn't getting any better, and Iraq plus the Katrina clean-up are the two key issues he mentions in this article: both of them stones around his neck.
The less-government pundits are having to face the facts that "less government" leaves us helpless in the face of disasters like Katrina, and "less government" means we can't afford wars in Iraq either.
Bush is not really a conservative "less government" president, by the way. He makes use of a "big government" with items like, oh, wars in Iraq, Patriot Act red tape, then makes himself popular by cutting taxes (for the people who put him in office) with no clue how to pay for it. That's not less government. It's just less money to run the same amount of government.
Anyone want to help me nail his coffin shut? *Icarus hands out nails*
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Date: 2005-10-06 06:29 pm (UTC)Thanks for the encouragement. I think a lot of us here just feel like we're banging our heads against a wall, and after a while you just start to wonder "why am I doing this?" It's been my experience that something does eventually come around to remind me why I do this, and in the interim, I can whinge in strangers' journals. :)